Improvement in paper collars



' -UNrrEn STATES PATENT OEEicE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER COLLARS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 56,4827, dated July 31, 1866.

Q Am* Figure l is a view of a collar constructed` `according to my invention, butnot turned or folded over; Fig. 2, a'front sectional view of e the same turned over or folded and bent in circular form readywfor use, m x, Fig. 2 being the line of section; Fig. 3, a horizontal section of Fig. 2, taken in the line y y.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

L ,if/ This invention consists in slitting in a C transverse direction the neck-band of the colv lar, so as to admit of the upper part of the latter being turned or folded dowuover the neck-band with astraight .or nearly straight crease or fold, and without causing the collar towrinkle or pucker when adjusted to the neck-of the wearer, and at the same time admit of a neck tie being readily inserted between the upper or turn-over part and the neck-band.

The invention also consists in having the -exterior or outer surface only of the upper or turn-over part of a paper or paper and cloth combined collar printed or colored, whereby 9 the ornamented surface is not brought in contact. with the neck-tie or the neck or skin of the wearer, as is the case with the ordinary collars wholly covered with such ornamentation, and which frequently ruins the neck-tie .Ja'nd 'irritates the skin of the neck of the wearer. The invention further consists in using, in connection with the slitted neck-band, a button-hole of` peculiar shape, whereby the' latter r will accommodate itself to either large or small shirtbutton's, and not be-liable to be torn out with large buttons or slip off from small ones. i `A represents the upper or turn-over part of a shirt-collar constructed of paper or of paper and cloth combined, and B is the neck-band of the same. This neck-band is slitted transversely at equal and suitable distances apart, as shown at a, and the part A is folded or turned down over the neck-band B with a straight or nearly straight fold or crease, b. (Shown in Fig. l.) These turn-over shirt-collars, or those of paper and clot-l1 combined, were originally turned or folded over on a straight fold or crease, b,- but said collars, in being bent in circular form and adj usted to the neck of the wearer, invariably wrinkled or puckered, owing to the neck-band B forming a smaller circle than the turn-over part A; and besides this, the turn-over part and neck-band would be so close together as to prevent the ready insertion of the neck-tie between them.

To obviate these dificulties acurved crease or fold was adopted, and paper and combined paper and cloth collars are now quite extensively manufactured on this plan 5 but they are attended with the objection of a liaring part, A, at the front of the collar, and they do not t to the neck as snugly or smoothly as one turned over on a straight fold or crease, provided the wrinkling or puckering could be obviated or avoided. This wrinkling or puckering is duc to the neck-band and the upper or turn-over part forming, when the collar is adjusted to the neck of the wearer, circles of different diameter, the neck-band forming the smaller one, and consequently being the part that wrinkles. This difculty, however, is avoided by slitting the neck-band, as described, which admits of the latter contracting itself as the collar is bent in circular form without wrinkling or puckering. This will be understood by referring to Fig. 3, in which the slits in the neck band are shown with their edges overlapped.

The exterior or outer surfaceof the turnover part A is ornamented when such collars are required. By ornamenting only the eXterior A of the collar contact of the ornamental surface with the neck is avoided. This ornamentation may be done in the preparation of the paper for the collar-manufacturers, or it may done or applied by the latter before or after the collars are cut out.

The button-holes O are of oblong form, gradually increasing in width from their centers toward each end, as shown clearly in Figs. l Y

and 2. By this form of button-hole the latter will accommodate itself to different-sized butf tons, large buttons not being liable to tear the button-holes nor small ones liable to slip ont therefrom under a Working of the oo11ar,whieh, in consequence ofthe slitted neekband,wou1d otherwise be liable to occur.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A paper or combined paper and eloth turn-over shirt-collar having` its neck-band B slitted in the manner substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A turn-over shirt-collar, of paper or paper and cloth combined, having onl)T tbe exterior surface of the turn-over part A colored or ornamented, as specified.

3. The slitted neck-band B, provided with bntton-ho1es C, of the form shown, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

SAML. S. STONE.

Witnesses M. M. LIVINGSTON, G. L. TOPLIFF. p 

